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DONATELLO St John the Baptist 1438 Painted wood, height 141 cm Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
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DONATELLO St John the Baptist 1438 Polychrome wood, height 141 cm Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice Where Donatello excelled was in his rendering of drama and pathos, nearly always in a Christian context. The gaunt, painted wood statues of St John the Baptist (1438; Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice) and St Mary Magdalene (c. 1457; Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence), as well as his bronze St John for Siena Cathedral, border on the horrific and are deliberately shocking to a casual observer. The choice of wood may reflect a wish to relate these figures to the Gothic tradition of wood-carving in Germany and the alpine regions, where it was always used expressively. The intense empathy that Donatello manifested with his chosen subjects, whether carved in wood or marble or cast in bronze, is deeply moving and is still much appreciated. The very humanity of such works retains its appeal across six centuries. But even if Donatello’s expressiveness is all his own, to some extent he was drawing on an earlier Tuscan Gothic tradition of fiercely dramatic narrative founded by Giovanni Pisano, who, where necessary, as in the <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/p/pisano/giovanni/pulpit_a/1panel3.html')" href="/html/p/pisano/giovanni/pulpit_a/1panel3.html">Massacre of the Innocents</a> (1301; Sant'Andrea, Pistoia), did not flinch from inflicting the full horror of the event on the spectator.
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DONATELLO St John the Baptist 1457 Bronze, height 185 cm Duomo, Siena
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DONATELLO St John the Baptist (detail) 1438 Painted wood Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
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DONATELLO St John the Evangelist 1410-11 Marble, height 210 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St John the Evangelist 1410-11 Marble, height 210 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St John the Evangelist (detail) 1410-11 Marble Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St John the Evangelist (detail) 1410-11 Marble Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St Justina 1447-50 Bronze, height 154 cm Basilica di Sant'Antonio, Padua
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DONATELLO St Louis of Toulouse 1421-25 Gilded bronze, height 226 cm Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, Florence
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DONATELLO St Louis of Toulouse 1447-50 Bronze, height 164 cm Basilica di Sant'Antonio, Padua
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DONATELLO St Louis of Toulouse (detail) 1421-25 Gilded bronze Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, Florence
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DONATELLO St Louis of Toulouse (detail) 1421-25 Gilded bronze Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, Florence
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DONATELLO St Luke 1460-65 Bronze San Lorenzo, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mark c. 1411 Marble, height 236 cm Orsanmichele, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mark c. 1411 Marble, height 236 cm Orsanmichele, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mark c. 1411 Marble, height 236 cm Orsanmichele, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mary Magdalene c. 1457 Polychrome wood, height 188 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mary Magdalene c. 1457 Polychrome wood, height 188 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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DONATELLO St Mary Magdalene (detail) c. 1457 Polychrome wood Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
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